Identifying your Browser Helper Objects (BHO's) Host Application

The code presented here offers a simple mechanism for identifying the application that caused your BHO to load.

Both Internet Explorer and Windows Explorer identify and execute the list of BHO's available on your system and, whilst this is not normally a problem for your BHO it might well cause unnecessary resource usage if your BHO is only designed to work from within one application and not the other.

Requirements

Any version of Delphi that enables you to create Browser Helper Objects.

Download Code

BhoShellHost.pas can be downloaded here.

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